Exploring the Advantages and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence-assisted Genealogy
Listen to a spooky-good Halloween-themed audio overview about these prompts by two over-caffeinated co-hosts. Steve's Best Prompts:Quick Copy-Paste Sheet Steve Little | Halloween, Oct 31, 2025 | v7.0h | CC BY-NC 4.0 | PDF of Print-friendly version 🎃 TRICK OR TREAT — Third Halloween Edition 🎃 Sixteen prompts to conjure better AI responses Note from … Continue reading Fun Prompt Friday: 3rd Halloween Edition
AI image editing is evolving from simple commands into a creative conversation. For this Fun Prompt Friday, we're using that power to do something truly artistic: embedding a memory directly into a photograph. The prompt below guides the AI to analyze a scene and then install a ghostly wire sculpture—a 'memory made manifest'—that reveals the … Continue reading Fun Prompt Friday: Image Editing
Using AI to check 10 writing basics while maintaining authorial control This virtual copy editor scans your writing, identifying errors from grammar to flow. It presents each correction with clear reasoning, then hands you the red pen—letting you decide which improvements belong in your final text. Three versions of the prompt are included and discussed … Continue reading The Author’s AI Assistant: Finding Errors While You Maintain Control
Welcome back to Fun Prompt Friday! Last week, we got our hands dirty with the art of extraction, teaching our favorite AI tools how to dig through unstructured texts and unearth rich, structured nuggets of information. If you’ve ever wanted a machine that could comb through raw data and deliver it to you on a … Continue reading Fun Prompt Friday: Narration
This is the first of three "Fun Prompt Friday" posts to start the new year, introducing a set of AI tools to empower researchers with the basic AI skills to advance their family history research. The basic unit of AI genealogy is the USE CASE, a task that a generative model can accomplish as well … Continue reading Fun Prompt Friday: Extraction
Hi Genealogy Friends and Generative AI Enthusiasts! At 2 PM ET, Wednesday 20 November 2024, I'll be hosting a free Legacy Family Tree Webinar. Discover new ways artificial intelligence assists genealogical research in 2024. From exciting full-text search to emerging voice interfaces, this year marked a significant shift in how we explore family history. We'll … Continue reading Top Ten AI Genealogy Breakthroughs of 2024
In this post you'll find:● a PROMPT to generate a podcast script/transcript from any type of content● an example of a podcast script/transcript generated by this PROMPT using a prompt engineering resource as a source document, i.e., hear two hosts discuss prompt engineering in an easy, accessible style● a list of upcoming speaking events A … Continue reading Paper-to-Podcast Prompt
In this episode of "The Family History AI Show" podcast, hosts Mark Thompson and I discuss Microsoft's new AI-enhanced search tool, Deep Search. Then, we review Google's major list of AI announcements. In the last of the big stories this week, Mark and I talk about how photography is changing in the digital age. Don’t … Continue reading Episode 11: Microsoft Simplifies Research with “Deep Search”, Google Goes All In on AI, Have We Entered the Post-Photography Era?